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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Jeff Pomeranz, Partner at Right Side Capital , said, “The biggest investment of resources with our tech platform relates to the capturing and maintenance of data on our huge portfolio of 1100+ evolving tech companies. An added bonus is having more comfort and control around your business even when NOT fundraising! .

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Why we need to teach MBA’s about modern entrepreneurship (and what Harvard Business School is doing about it)

Startup Lessons Learned

These dynamics harm startups at all stages, because they pressure founders to engage in “success theatre” – trying to make themselves look successful by general management standards by focusing on vanity metrics , product milestones, and whiz-bang demos. Fraud, deception, and dishonesty undermine this moral calculus.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Technographics vendors such as Builtwith , Datanyze , HG Data , Stackshare, and Stacklist help CEOs identify the right tech platform on which to build their business; they’re also helpful for investors to due diligence a company’s tech stack choices. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns. 10) Report.

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Is the bar lower for a tech IPO?

BeyondVC

First and foremost, the traditional rule of thumb that most investment bankers have quoted me in the last couple of years was that in order to go public a company needs to have an annual run-rate of $40-50mm of revenue and a couple quarters of profitability. The post Is the bar lower for a tech IPO? appeared first on BeyondVC.

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The Three Benefits Of Nailing Before Scaling

YoungUpstarts

When entrepreneurs are selling widely from the start and showing us vanity metrics, it’s clear that they haven’t found PMF and it’s a quick pass for us. We’d much rather invest in a company that’s serving a much smaller customer base but has deep insights.